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Private Press, Books & Art
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Bloomsbury House
24 Maddox Street Mayfair, London, W1 S1PP ![]()
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Dryden (John) Songs and Poems, number 6 of 100 specially-bound copies with the additional suite of colour plates mounted on card but lacking the additional suite of black and white illustrations, from an edition limited to 500, illustrations by Lavinia Blythe (Lesley Blanch), some colour, original pictorial two-tone morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., cloth slip-case, with additional plates loose in transparent envelope, folio, Golden Cockerel Press, 1957.***Blanch insisted on using a pseudonym as her style had changed so much since she had executed the watercolours before the war, for a projected but unpublished Dryden by the Chiswick Press.. View Bloomsbury Auctions next auction.Similar lots up for auction |




